A Unix Utility to Know About: lsof (2009)

Re:A Unix Utility to Know About: lsof (2009) by jdhendrickson on Friday August 26, 2016 @03:56AM (#12364879)

Sometimes powerful tools require effort to understand. Lsof is absolutely something you should spend some real time grokking.

In regard to ps you can memorize a few commands until something truly weird comes up since you will probably use other more specialized snapshotting and tracing tools for anything somewhat difficult to troubleshoot.

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Re:A Unix Utility to Know About: lsof (2009) by voidz on Friday August 26, 2016 @04:00AM (#12364891)

> Sometimes powerful tools require effort to understand. Lsof is absolutely something you should spend some real time grokking.

Yup, this is true. And I did. But sometimes you just need less dense manual pages.

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Re:A Unix Utility to Know About: lsof (2009) by daurnimator on Friday August 26, 2016 @04:19AM (#12364941)

I find lsof and ps too hard to remember, so I usually just use regular linux utilities like cat/grep on the /proc file system.

  - grep bash /proc/*/status
  - readlink /proc/*/fd/* | grep /run

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Re:A Unix Utility to Know About: lsof (2009) by atsaloli on Friday August 26, 2016 @11:33AM (#12366941)

That's what I've been trying to tell people about Git, too. It's a powerful tool and it takes some effort to wrap your mind around it.

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